The nuclear agreement with Iran will “wreak havoc” across the Middle East, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States for nearly 25 years, wrote in an op-ed, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad deal, while President Bill Clinton had made a deal with North Korea with the best intentions and the best information he had. The new deal will “wreak havoc” in the Middle East, which is already destabilized due to Iranian actions, Bandar writes.

Writing about the failed deal with North Korea, which was agreed in 1994 and collapsed in 2003, Bandar says, “it turned out that the strategic foreign policy analysis was wrong and there was a major intelligence failure.” He added that if Clinton had known the full picture, “I am absolutely confident he would not have made that decision.”

The Saudi royal then contrasts this with the present situation with Iran, “where the strategic foreign policy analysis, the national intelligence information, and America’s allies in the region’s intelligence all predict not only the same outcome of the North Korean nuclear deal but worse – with the billions of dollars that Iran will have access to.”

The Saudi media has been sharply critical of the announced nuclear deal with Iran. The growing concern over the deal prompted an unprecedented meeting between representatives of Israel and Saudi Arabia last month. Earlier this year, Prince Turki bin Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, warned that the nuclear deal would lead to nuclear proliferation across the region.

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